Wendy Murray's Exhibitions

Exhibitions
Group
London Print Studio 'Journeys' March 2019
Jack House Gallery in Portsmouth 'Journeys' March 2019
New Kent Art Gallery,EnvironArt May 2018
The Royal Over-Seas House November 2018
Landmark Art Centre, Oct 2018
Garage Roasted Cafe, Canterbury, Nov 2018
Ink Paper + Print Margate Winter Gardens October 2018
Visitors Centre Dungeness Power Station 'Elemental' 2017
Evegate Gallery, Ashford 2017
Horsebridge Whitstable, Gallery 1, Whitstable 2017
Smallhythe Studio AVA Exhibition 'Beyond Words' 2016
Canterbury Society of Art Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable, 2016
SEOS High Halden 2016
Man Made Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury. 2016
Twitterartexhibit, NewYork USA Trygve Lie Gallery
317 E 52nd St., New York, NY 10022 2016
Post Nude, Horsebridge Centre, Whitstable, 2015
Animal Magic: a celebration of birds, beasts and bugs!, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury. 2015
Twitterartexhibit, Moss Library, Norway 2015
Canterbury Society of Art, Canterbury 2014
Whitstable Art Society, Whitstable 2014
Horsebridge Centre Whitstable 2014
Fishslab Gallery Whitstable 2014
Bay Art Gallery, Herne Bay 2013
Whitstable Framers, 2013
Air Gallery London 1997
Selected
Scarborough Art Gallery 2019
The Royal Over-Seas House November 2018
Here's Looking at You Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury. 2017
Man Made Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury. 2016
Animal Magic: a celebration of birds, beasts and bugs!, Beaney House of Art and Knowledge, Canterbury. 2015
Open Selection - Beach Creative, Herne Bay 2012

Collections
Scarborough Art Gallery

Education
Christchurch University BA (Hons), PGCE 1998
Kent Institute of Art and Design 1995
Career
Full time artist printmaker 2013 to present
Art educator 1998 -2003

Memberships
Made in Whitstable
Printmakers Council

My fascination with colour, shape and images stems from an early age. I loved the style of fashion illustrations of the late 1960's and 70's. At this time there was an abundance of illustrated advertisements and the colour and shape in these images captivated me. I would pour over these illustrations in teen magazines scrutinising how they had been drawn, and concentrating on these rather the other content in the magazine. I would try to reproduce them on any surface I could lay my hands on. The first image, shown above, is an advertisement inviting people to send their art work off to have it critiqued to see if they had the skills to pursue a creative career. I remember answering an advert very similar to the one shown, when I was still at school. I waited for the verdict and was sent the advise that although I showed some skills, a postal training course, which they offered for a fee, would go a long way to helping me achieve my goals. I did not take them up on their offer as I recognised that tuition of art by post would be difficult, but even at that age, I was keen to have an ongoing discussion about the work I produced.
As life progressed I concentrated more and more on art and completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree at Canterbury Christ Church University College, after attending Kent Institute of Art and Design. I became an art educator and shared my love of art with students in Kent. I am now working full-time on my passion and am spending my time making and exhibiting art throughout Kent and abroad selling my work in the UK and internationally.